Telling Hillary Clinton “some observers believe” that when she got “emotional” -- as “your voice cracked and your eyes welled up” -- that “humanized you and made you much more attractive to women voters,” CBS's Katie Couric on Wednesday night cooed: “Will you be willing now to reveal more of yourself and be less reserved?” As if the “emotional” moment Monday in New Hampshire exposed the real, sensitive Hillary Clinton while the “reserved” Hillary persona of the last 15-plus years doesn't match reality. For the interview aired on the CBS Evening News, Clinton invited Couric to her home in New Castle, New York. Clinton described the incident as “Hillary unplugged” and insisted it showed “I don't see politics as a game,” but as a way of “getting in a position to actually help people.”
Couric did, at least, challenge a Clinton premise: “How can you be a real change agent when you were involved in a two-term administration in the '90s. You're yesterday's news, they think in a way?”
CBS News.com has posted video and a transcript of what aired on the January 9 CBS Evening News. An excerpt, corrected against what aired, picking up after they discussed her surprising win in Tuesday's New Hampshire primary:
COURIC: Some observers believe that moment when you got emotional on Monday, when your voice cracked and your eyes welled up, that that humanized you and made you much more attractive to women voters.
CLINTON: That moment, which obviously I've heard a lot about since, gave people maybe some insight into the fact that I don't see politics as a game. You know, I don't see it as some kind of a traveling entertainment show where, you know, you get up and you perform and then you go on to the next venue. You know, for me it is a way of figuring out what we stand for, what our values are, and getting in a position to actually help people.
COURIC: Will you be willing now to reveal more of yourself and be less reserved?
CLINTON: Well, you know, one of my young friends said well, that was like Hillary unplugged. You know, I thought, okay, you know, I can't sing, I can't play an instrument. But, you know, I will try to let people know enough about me to know that, you know, I don't need to go back and live in the White House. That's not why I'm doing this. I certainly don't need anymore name recognition. And, I mean, I just want to try to convey that we're going to have to make some big decisions in this country. This is the toughest job in the world. You know, I was laughing because you know in that debate, obviously Senator Edwards and Senator Obama were kind of in the buddy system on the stage. And I was thinking whoever's up against the Republican nominee in the election debates come the fall is not gonna have a buddy to fall back on. You know, you're all by yourself. When you're President, you're there all by yourself.
COURIC: How can you be a real change agent when you were involved in a two-term administration in the '90s. You're yesterday's news, they think in a way?
—Brent Baker is Vice President for Research and Publications at the Media Research Center
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}}---> Thanks, perky
Thu, 01/10/2008 - 06:45 ET by Cool ArrowAs though you have to coax the HillBilly to be deceptive.
So when you hear hoofbeats, think zebras.
That's no crocodile, it's an aligator with a water pistol.
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" So when you hear
Thu, 01/10/2008 - 10:07 ET by misterbee241"
So when you hear hoofbeats, think zebras."
When it comes to her, when I hear hoofbeats I'm more inclined to think Four Horsemen of the Apocolypse.
There is none so blind as they that won’t see. Jonathan Swift 1667-1745
Well, you know, one of my
Thu, 01/10/2008 - 07:01 ET by motherbeltWell, you know, one of my young friends said well, that was like
Hillary unplugged. You know, I thought, okay, you know, I can't sing, I
can't play an instrument. But, you know, I will try to let people know
enough about me to know that, you know, I don't need to go back and
live in the White House. That's not why I'm doing this. I certainly
don't need anymore name recognition.
5 "you know"s just in that little bit. I don't even want to see how many are in the whole interview. If I have to listen to her do that for the next 10 months my head's going to explode.
This is just more proof that the lady is not an off-the-cuff speaker. She needs her script.
You know, I was laughing because you know in that debate, obviously
Senator Edwards and Senator Obama were kind of in the buddy system on
the stage.
AAAAAWWWW. The guys ganging up on the girl.
This is the one that really got me:
...I don't see politics as a game. You know, I don't see it as some kind
of a traveling entertainment show where, you know, you get up and you
perform and then you go on to the next venue.
This, from the most focus-grouped, poll-tested, rehearsed, scripted, candidate probably in US history. Every gesture, every inflection of voice is rehearsed. That's why she's full of "you know" when she has to answer extemporaneously.
I already said the other day that if it rang the bell in the focus groups, we would see more of it. And probably, in HRC-fashion, she will overdo it.
}}---> Well you know Motherbelt
Thu, 01/10/2008 - 07:03 ET by Cool Arrow"you know" is Arkansas HillBilly talk for "like"
It's like I'd like to be like more like human.
Just thank God she's not a Valley girl.
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Gag me with a spoon. Grody
Thu, 01/10/2008 - 07:10 ET by Jack BauerGag me with a spoon. Grody to the max!!
And in the case of the long-term MSM and Clintons... Toady to the max.
}}---> Gnarly
Thu, 01/10/2008 - 07:13 ET by Cool ArrowShe's got some tripendicular vibes coning off of her.
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When Her Royal Clintoness
Thu, 01/10/2008 - 07:16 ET by motherbeltWhen Her Royal Clintoness gave her victory speech in NH, she said:
Over the last week, I listened to you, and in the process I found my own voice,"
Translation: I checked the focus groups after I cried, and now I know what you want me to do, so I'll do it.
I found my own
Thu, 01/10/2008 - 07:23 ET by Jack BauerPresumably it was found in the same box as the missing Whitewater files?
}}---> Voice box
Thu, 01/10/2008 - 07:26 ET by Cool ArrowAnd the 2000 FBI files.
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O'Reily
Thu, 01/10/2008 - 07:31 ET by ThisnThatIs O'Reily next on the Clinton invitee list? Since she's gonna be so "open" and everything, you know.
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Hillary speaks worse than Bush
Thu, 01/10/2008 - 07:38 ET by Six String SpiffWow. Was that Hillary ad lib? How many "You know"s were in that tiny conversation? People say Bush is an idiot, and so on, but look at the horrible attempt at dodging she did. Was that Hillary speaking, Miss Teen SC?
You know Hillary
Thu, 01/10/2008 - 07:42 ET by Cool ArrowShe wants to give kids maps so they can like, find the Iraq.
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Like, you know, Hillary is,
Thu, 01/10/2008 - 07:47 ET by KillgraveLike, you know, Hillary is, you know, like those moments in "The Adams Family" (tv show) when, like, they would, you know, tell Lerch to smile and he would struggle enormously to twist his face into, like, a hideous grin or something.
For now on, she will, like, need to pull nosehairs off camera, you know, to get her eyes watery and stuff. Or, you know, put stuff in her hankerchief like hot sauce or tear gas, and, you know, rub her eyes with it when she needs to "cry".
We really need, like, women to weep and stuff cause, you know, it makes them look like they care and everything. Cause that is all that matters, not like she has to actually DO stuff, you know?
}}---> Pulling nose hairs
Thu, 01/10/2008 - 07:54 ET by Cool ArrowOuch. I was wondering how she did it. Of course she's crying this morning as Bill Richardson is being surgically removed from her buttocks.
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I wonder if they are going
Thu, 01/10/2008 - 07:58 ET by KillgraveI wonder if they are going to shoot a commercial now of Hillary overlooking a landscape littered with trash, and then the camera zooms on her face as a lone tear runs down that craggy mug of hers.
}}---> Wrong Indian Kilgrave
Thu, 01/10/2008 - 08:03 ET by Cool ArrowShe'll be overlooking a 7-11 where she says you can't work unless you have a slight Indian accent.
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Salon essay
Thu, 01/10/2008 - 11:10 ET by NortoRoad Warrior
Camille Paglia over as salon.com has a blog slamming Hillary from all sides and then says she will vote for her if she is the nominee because of court and cabinet appointments. Interesting read.
Hi Norto... I read that
Thu, 01/10/2008 - 13:44 ET by bigtimerHi Norto...
I read that all this morning, interesting indeed.
I feel like I have to
Thu, 01/10/2008 - 13:37 ET by SwamprunnerI feel like I have to hurl........
Yo Hillary... This is the
Thu, 01/10/2008 - 14:13 ET by bigtimerYo Hillary...
This is the exact problem as you put so succinctly....I will try to let people know enough about me
We know enough of about you...and are sick and tired of you...and your conniving ways.
Period.
Stick a fork in it already...you are done.